Hi,
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:44:16 +0200 sajolida@??? wrote:
> Someone sent us a Whisperback bug report to point the fact that the
> message of Tails USB Installer should be more reassuring when doing an
> upgrade on a USB stick with persistence.
>
> "Your device already contains a LiveOS.
> If you continue, this will be overwritten.
> Press 'Next' if you wish to continue."
>
> The installer doesn't actually specify that the persistent storage
> will be kept. This seems to be an important UX problem.
>
I agree.
> A suggestion would be to have Tails USB Installer look at the USB
> stick and see if there's already a persistence volume. If there is,
> it should warn you that the Tails OS will get overwritten but the
> persistence volume will remain the same.
>
Not sure I find it relevant to put energy to implement the checks. But
why not?
> Otherwise, without even changing the logic, the installer could have a
> line somewhere saying that the persistent storage will not be erased.
>
That seems me easy and improving the situation (nearly) as much as the
other proposal; Something like:
Your device already contains a live operation system like Tails.
If you continue, this will be overwritten by a new Tails
version. Your persistent partition will be preserved.
Press 'Next' if you wish to continue.
> If we agree on that, I volunteer to do a preliminary patch.
>
Either way you choose, i'll be happy to review it.
Cheers
